Word: wages
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...definitely feel healthier and freer, more integrated as a person,” he says. Though Sunday School will not be his vehicle to change the world, his service continues. This summer he will work at Florida Legal Services, starting a project to help low-wage workers in Miami. It’s a job worthy of a missionary—or an atheist.Parochial Paradox Back in the basement of Memorial Church, Epstein embodies such contradictions. His position is paradoxical: he is a chaplain without a church, a Divinity student without a religion. His friend Rodriguez hesitates to define...
...strikers are demanding that the university pressure the company, which contracts laborers, to adopt a living wage and allow workers to unionize without fear of reprisal...
...when the Chronicle of Higher Education released a survey ranking the university’s labor conditions 194th out of 195 colleges. The survey led the university’s president, Donna E. Shalala, to create an ad hoc Senate committee to examine the issue of a living wage...
Though the strikers and SEIU do not have specific monetary demands, they are “calling for the university to adopt a policy that it’s only going to hire responsible contractors who obey the law and pay a living wage,” Brakken said...
...differences between Harvard and Princeton’s meal plans are more than perception,” Mayer wrote, noting that “the inherent inefficiencies of so many dining operations all offering the same menu and operating the same hours, the one mandatory meal plan...and wage differentials” are all factors in Harvard’s decision not to expand its hours. The Princeton report does not mention any budgetary specifics. Stu Orefice, Director of Princeton Dining Services, did not return a call for comment...